Mauricio Ruiz is a writer and journalist who has lived in the US, Belgium, Mexico and Norway. His work has appeared in Words Without Borders, Catapult, The Common, The Rumpus, Electric Literature, JMWW, River Teeth, Literal Magazine, among others. He's been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize and Myriad Editions Competition in the UK, as well as the Fish Short Story Prize in Ireland. He has received fellowships from OMI writers (NY), Société des auteurs (Belgium), Jakob Sande (Norway), Can Serrat (Spain), and the Three Seas' Council (Rhodes). His second book, Silencios al sur, was published in early 2017, and his work has partially been translated into Dutch and French. Mauricio Ruiz can be followed on Twitter and Instagram.
There is a small island, right in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, that receives very few tourists. With a population that doesn’t even reach 12,000 […]
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Authorities in Namibia have condemned three tourists who posed naked in one of the country’s top attractions, the Big Daddy dune in the Namibian desert. During […]
On Wednesday April 24th, Japan Airlines decided to cancel flight JL11 from Dallas Fort Worth to Tokyo Haneda after its 49-year-old pilot drank too much alcohol […]
Work on a high-speed passenger rail line between Las Vegas and the Los Angeles area began on Monday April 22nd. Officials involved with the $12 billion […]
On Friday, 19 April, the Brussels Parliament approved by a large majority a draft ordinance aimed at regulating the opening of UNESCO World Heritage sites to […]
On 9 April, Spanish football club Real Madrid announced the inauguration of its first theme park, Real Madrid World, in the Unite Arab Emirates and with […]
On Tuesday, 16 April, a 47-year-old German passenger travelling on an Air New Zealand flight broke his leg after strong turbulence and had to endure more […]
On the 7th of April, the Mesopotamia Express completed its promotional tour across Türkiye’s eastern and southeastern Anatolian regions. The train departed from Ankara with stops […]
Authorities in Greece have announced that the country’s Ministry of Tourism is offering free trips to thousands of tourists whose holiday in Rhodes was disrupted last […]
California-based space company Vast announced that its flagship Haven-1, which is expected to be the world’s first commercial space station, will be equipped with SpaceX’s Starlink laser […]
On Thursday April 11th, the US aviation industry sent a letter to the Biden administration asking for a strategic pause in the approval of new flight […]